A hidden cost of all this #AIHype is opportunity cost. I'm sure that Notion could actually fix expanding the menu on the left to show the currently open page when it's more than 2 levels deep. You stuff that actually frustrates users every day. But they're probably too busy being the new "AI workplace."
Michael Graaf
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"We believe that language is a device to increase people’s “AI” literacy, helping them make informed choices about technology acceptance.
A more deliberate and thoughtful way forward is to talk about “AI” systems in terms of what we use systems to do, often specifying input and/or output. That is, talk about functionalities that serve our purposes, rather than “capabilities” of the system. Rather than saying a model is “good at” something (suggesting the model has skills) we can talk about what it is “good for”. Who is using the model to do something, and what are they using it to do?
It takes effort to swim upstream against anthropomorphizing language embedded in commonly-used technical terms and popular discourse, both in recognizing the language at all but also in finding suitable alternatives. Whether we are participating in local discussions making decisions for our workplaces, schools or communities or writing for broad audiences we share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language that embeds the tech companies’ marketing pitches."
https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #AIHype #Anthropomorphization #AILiteracy
"We believe that language is a device to increase people’s “AI” literacy, helping them make informed choices about technology acceptance.
A more deliberate and thoughtful way forward is to talk about “AI” systems in terms of what we use systems to do, often specifying input and/or output. That is, talk about functionalities that serve our purposes, rather than “capabilities” of the system. Rather than saying a model is “good at” something (suggesting the model has skills) we can talk about what it is “good for”. Who is using the model to do something, and what are they using it to do?
It takes effort to swim upstream against anthropomorphizing language embedded in commonly-used technical terms and popular discourse, both in recognizing the language at all but also in finding suitable alternatives. Whether we are participating in local discussions making decisions for our workplaces, schools or communities or writing for broad audiences we share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language that embeds the tech companies’ marketing pitches."
https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #AIHype #Anthropomorphization #AILiteracy
🫧 Is the AI boom a bubble waiting to pop? Here’s what history says // Japan Times
｢ The potential for credit risk in the AI trade is making some investors nervous. After Oracle sold $18 billion in bonds on Sept. 24, the stock plunged 5.6% the next day and it’s down 37% since then. Meta, Alphabet and Oracle will need to raise $86 billion combined in 2026 alone, according to an estimate by Societe Generale ｣
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I hope we can (re)gain your trust here.
I don't personally work on this stuff, but I'll try hard to answer any questions you have.
And other than that, I'll get back in my lane, and stick to web platform stuff.
- Jake ( @jaffathecake)
@firefoxwebdevs It's not only about trust. It's also the question how Firefox wants to be part of destroying our climate and water ressources in a time of #climateEmergency and growing #desertification thanks to #datacenters needed by the #AIHype!
Software that contributes to this destruction, even though it could work without it, is not an option for me. If it forces me to use such functions, I consider it even criminal. Firefox/the CEO wants AI.
Chip Butty
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One of my favorite audiobook publishers, Podium Audio, hinted at over and over and over again, that they would love to eventually get into the AI narration space and I don’t have any words of anger anymore. I just hate this whole timeline. Just fucking stop it. You look pothetic even mentioning AI narrators in an interview about your company. Just stop it. Can we start bullying companies because these CEOs are just pothetic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=9uAB4mRceo0vK8pO&v=pfZNAIsPZR4&feature=youtu.be #AI #AIHype
One of my favorite audiobook publishers, Podium Audio, hinted at over and over and over again, that they would love to eventually get into the AI narration space and I don’t have any words of anger anymore. I just hate this whole timeline. Just fucking stop it. You look pothetic even mentioning AI narrators in an interview about your company. Just stop it. Can we start bullying companies because these CEOs are just pothetic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=9uAB4mRceo0vK8pO&v=pfZNAIsPZR4&feature=youtu.be #AI #AIHype
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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I’m legitimately happy that this place actually cares about artists and artist compensation and otherwise. I cannot express how frustrating the mainstream Internet is. There are so many pro AI people prompt engineering their books, their covers, and it’s ironic because I never see these book prompters promoted on any PR channel so it’s very easy for me never to buy their books but i’m not sure if it’s just me, but these are the most insufferable people on the Internet. I don’t even think the most adamant of LLM hater even comes close to how insufferable these people are. This is why I can’t do online author spaces and it sucks. I know pro LLM art prompters exist here too but they are the minority. I’m just waiting for them to get bored with trying to make money with their prompted SLOP. The sane hostility we have will harm them too. #AI #AIHype
hypebot
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Today's mood #ClimateEmergency #Capitalism #Fascism #AIHype
"What psychological mechanisms allow us to pour hundreds of billions into artificial intelligence while 600 million people will live in extreme poverty by 2030? The answer lies in the architecture of human decision-making under conditions of abstraction, proximity bias, and manufactured urgency."
#CorneliaCWalther, Ph.D, 2025
"The AI investment frenzy exhibits classic bubble psychology: fear of missing out (FOMO) overriding rational assessment.
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FOMO hijacks our social comparison mechanisms. We evaluate investments relative to what others are doing, not against absolute measures of value or social good. If your competitor invests in AI, you must too, regardless of whether it creates genuine value or inflates valuations."
#CorneliaCWalther, Ph.D, 2025
Today's mood #ClimateEmergency #Capitalism #Fascism #AIHype
I’m legitimately happy that this place actually cares about artists and artist compensation and otherwise. I cannot express how frustrating the mainstream Internet is. There are so many pro AI people prompt engineering their books, their covers, and it’s ironic because I never see these book prompters promoted on any PR channel so it’s very easy for me never to buy their books but i’m not sure if it’s just me, but these are the most insufferable people on the Internet. I don’t even think the most adamant of LLM hater even comes close to how insufferable these people are. This is why I can’t do online author spaces and it sucks. I know pro LLM art prompters exist here too but they are the minority. I’m just waiting for them to get bored with trying to make money with their prompted SLOP. The sane hostility we have will harm them too. #AI #AIHype
Chip Butty
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The other day, @noybeu published a great video explaining whats is wrong with the Digital Omnibus, a bundle of laws the EU commission wants to pass quickly in order to weaken the data protection standards the EU previously established in the GDPR.
My favourite quote is what @maxschrems says around minute 42:
When we talk about the AI discussion I usually kind of allude that originally when we came up with all those principles in the eighties in the Council of Europe, the idea was always that we are going to have this big algorithm that is going to suck up all your data, come to weird conclusions, and therefore we need transparency, rectification – we need all these things. And now, exactly at the time when this is the reality then suddenly the argument is we have to get rid of all these rules that were made for exactly this situation. So all this icks me a bit on all of that.
If you read it you sometimes get the idea that the commission wants to get to the AI promised land. And to get there we need to cut right through the whole GDPR.
Video: https://tilvids.com/w/vkPhGef6r5gvR9jiED2fGW
More: https://noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-eu-commission-wants-wreck-core-gdpr-principles
Next week, NOYB will publish the "GDPR Reform Report" with more details.
The other day, @noybeu published a great video explaining whats is wrong with the Digital Omnibus, a bundle of laws the EU commission wants to pass quickly in order to weaken the data protection standards the EU previously established in the GDPR.
My favourite quote is what @maxschrems says around minute 42:
When we talk about the AI discussion I usually kind of allude that originally when we came up with all those principles in the eighties in the Council of Europe, the idea was always that we are going to have this big algorithm that is going to suck up all your data, come to weird conclusions, and therefore we need transparency, rectification – we need all these things. And now, exactly at the time when this is the reality then suddenly the argument is we have to get rid of all these rules that were made for exactly this situation. So all this icks me a bit on all of that.
If you read it you sometimes get the idea that the commission wants to get to the AI promised land. And to get there we need to cut right through the whole GDPR.
Video: https://tilvids.com/w/vkPhGef6r5gvR9jiED2fGW
More: https://noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-eu-commission-wants-wreck-core-gdpr-principles
Next week, NOYB will publish the "GDPR Reform Report" with more details.
"The #AI hype machine relentlessly promotes the idea that we’re on the verge of creating something as intelligent as humans, or even “superintelligence” that will dwarf our own cognitive capacities.
But this theory is seriously scientifically flawed. LLMs are simply tools that emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning, no matter how many data centers we build."
My 2 cents on so-called Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
AGI is a fictional, undefined machine god, which is causing harm and goes against the backbone of engineering principles.
@timnitGebru
Great video! Thank you ❤️
It's only one minute long - worth watching and sharing!
Seth of the Fediverse
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I’m with AOC. When (not if) the AI bubble pops, there should be absolutely NO BAILOUT from the Federal government. Absolutely none.